Daniel Greene

Tag: singing

  • Sang “The Love Boat” on a cruise!

    Sang “The Love Boat” on a cruise!

    I finally fulfilled a dream of singing the theme song from the TV show “The Love Boat” on a cruise. A fellow passenger recorded this for me while I sang karaoke. Fun!

  • Singing “16 Going on 17” in gazebo at Vizcaya

    Singing “16 Going on 17” in gazebo at Vizcaya

    I see a gazebo and I start dancing and singing “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” from The Sound of Music! This was at the beautiful Vizcaya Museum & Gardens in Miami, Florida.

  • I get choked up at John Mayer’s “Clarity”

    John Mayer’s “Clarity” hits me so hard I can’t even sing’ “ooh Ooh ohh,” I get so choked up.

    (Featured image credit: Wikimedia)

  • Happy Easter! Here comes Peter Cottontail…

     Here comes Peter Cottontail / Hoppin’ down the bunny trail / Hippity hoppin’ Easter’s on its way!    

  • Grandma’s clippings re: singing with comedian Gene Sheldon

    Grandma’s clippings re: singing with comedian Gene Sheldon

    On Stage - A super-chaged concoction of song, dance, & laughter - The international mirth provoker Gene Sheldon with Linda Preston
    On Stage – A super-chaged concoction of song, dance, & laughter – The international mirth provoker Gene Sheldon with Linda Preston
    Sweet and Demure - Linda Preston - Miss Preston is an assistant to Comedian Gene Sheldon, topliner in the Hippodrome state program, which is being held over for a second week.
    Sweet and Demure – Linda Preston – Miss Preston is an assistant to Comedian Gene Sheldon, topliner in the Hippodrome state program, which is being held over for a second week.
    Gene Sheldon with Linda Preston in Panto-Mirth - Ben Marden's Riviera
    Gene Sheldon with Linda Preston in Panto-Mirth – Ben Marden’s Riviera

    My maternal grandmother, née Linda Preston, traveled as a singer with comedian Gene Sheldon in 1941. Unfortunately, it seems her tour with him was cut short when her brother, my Uncle Peter, took a curve too fast while driving her and ran the car into a tree. I remember Grandma told me her leg was broken, and got infected. She told me she begged the doctors in the hospital to save her leg rather than amputate it, and they gave her Sulfa drugs — brand new at the time — to kill the infection. They worked, mostly, but she was prone to getting infections in that leg in her old age.